Posts by TNT

Rivals torture consumers via Microsoft

You're missing the point...

...an OS provider (that is OPERATING system provider) shouldn't be involved in user level things such as search.

This is why M$ is a convicted monopolist: they leverage their monopolistic position to extend their monopoly to encompass non-OS areas.

An OS provides (should provide) an abstraction of the hardware in a consistent manner. There is no hardware involvement with wordprocessors, spreadsheets, web browsers, data search engines, or the delivery of entertainment.

If the EC or DoJ required M$ isolate the OS from its other areas of interest/business, not only would the monopoly be broken but the rest of M$ would be able to go out there and innovate, without being hamstrung by backwards compatibility with DOS.

Taiwan mislays millions of honeybees

GM Crops

..of course this couldn't possibly have anything to do with the deployment of GM crops in both the UK and Taiwan. Perish the thought...

Yahoo! China! sued! in! US!

...and then there is Guantanamo Bay

...sorry for the further thought...

Having looked at these laws, the inhuman conditions of Guantanamo confinement, coupled with Extreme Rendition, leave an avenue for full and complete restitution by the Bush administration, possibly even George W, personally...

We already know there are enough people to justify a class action...

T

This is a good way to enforce detachment from bad Human Rights regimes

What an excellent way of forcing corporate US search engines to disengage from countries with such abysmal human rights records.

Let's see...10 years at £60/hour = £5,256,000 ($10,512,00) (not including leap years) plus compound interest...

Hmm, if every person jailed as a result of Yahoo!, Google, MSN, et al, costs these companies these basic saleries, I have a feeling the cost will dictate withdrawal.

And then there are the legal bills....there HAS to be at least one lawyer, in the 'States that can make a handsome living out of this...

And there is the American system of Class actions, of which this is, surely, a classic cause celebre, would cost every non-Chinese ISP/search engine/etc . billions of dollars.

Is there a need for a specific organisation to push a class action?

T